How an Italian chef survived massacre
A dessert chef who is only one of two Italians to survive the Dhaka restaurant siege says he took refuge in an adjoining house and stayed there long after the massacre ended.
Jacopo Bioni, 34, told Sky TG24 TV in an interview over phone, that after jumping two storeys down onto the property of a nearby house, the residents, although "understandably" frightened by his sudden appearance, welcomed and hid him.
Bioni says when he saw an attacker point a rifle at a table of Italian diners, he fled to the roof without thinking twice. Bioni says police came to talk to him on Saturday morning and then he left the house in the afternoon.
"I grabbed two things and my passport, headed to the airport and caught the first flight out," says Bioni.
That flight took him to Bangkok, and Bioni says he can't wait to return to Italy on Monday.
He says he has no desire to look at attack photos on social or other media, since he prefers to remember Bangladesh in happier times.
Twenty people were brutally hacked to death by terrorists inside a restaurant popular with expatriates in Bangladesh capital Dhaka's high-security diplomatic zone before commandos launched an assault on Saturday killing six attackers and capturing one alive.
Security officials yesterday searched for evidence and the possible masterminds of the weekend hostage-taking in an upscale restaurant in Bangladesh's capital. The government has denied the Islamic State group 's claim of responsibility for the attack that left 28 dead, including six attackers and 20 of the hostages.
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